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Jeremy Shears
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An ApJ paper by Brad Schaefer on ArXiv today considers whether T CrB is a Type Ia SN precursor, as has been speculated. He presents evidence that it is not: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01587

He gives no revised date for its next eruption other than saying it’s likely in the next months.

In another paper he draws similar conclusions about the RN, U Sco: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01589